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It appears to me that the _Horiti_ of Alfred are undoubtedly the
_Croati_, or _Chrowati_, of Pomerania, who still pronounce their name
_Horuati_, the _H_ supplying, as in numerous other instances, the
place of the aspirate _Ch_. Nor does it seem unreasonable to presume
that the _Harudes_ of C�sar (_De Bell. Gall._ b. i. 31. 37. 51.) were
also _Croats_; for they must have been a numerous and widely spread
race, and are all called _Ch_arudes, [Greek: Aroudes]. The following
passage from the _Annales Fuldensis_, A. 852., will strengthen this
supposition:--"Inde transiens per Angros, _Harudos_, Suabos, et Hosingos
... Thuringiam ingreditur."
Mr. Kemble[2], with his wonted acumen, has not failed to perceive that
our _Coritavi_ derived their name in the same manner; but his derivation
of the word from Hor, _lutum_, Horilit, _lutosus_, is singularly at
issue with Herr Leo's, who derives it from the Bohemian Hora, a
mountain, Horet a mountaineer, and he places the _Horiti_ in the Ober
Lanbitz and part of the Silesian mountains.
Schaffarik again, says that _M�gtha Land_ is, according to its proper
signification, unknown; but that as Adam of Bremen places Amazons on the
Baltic coast, probably from mistaking of the _Mazovians_? it is possible
that _M�gthaland_ has thus arisen. In 1822 Dahlmann (_Forschungen auf
dem Gebiete der Geschichte_, t. i. 422.) gave a German version of King
Alfred's narration, where the passage is also correctly translated; but
as regards the illustration of the names of the people of Sclavonic
race, much yet remains to be done.
It is to be hoped that some competent northern scholar among us may
still remove, what I must consider to be a national reproach--the want
of a correct and well illustrated edition of the _Hormesta_, or at any
rate of this singularly interesting and valuable portion of it.
S.W. SINGER.
Feb. 21. 1850.
[Footnote 1: "Aber _Welitabi_, die in Germania sizzent, tie wir _Wilze_
heizen, die ni sc�ment sih niche ze chedenne, daz sih iro parentes mit
m�rem r�hte �zen s�lin danne die wurme." Albinus, in his _Meissnische
Chronicle_, says they had their name from their _wolfish_ nature.]
[Footnote 2: _The Saxons in England_, vol. i. p. 9. note.]
* * * * *
THE FIRST COFFEE-HOUSES IN ENGLAND.
As a Supplement to your "NOTES ON COFFEE," I send you the following
extracts.
Aubrey, in his account of Sir Henry Blount, (MS. in the Bodleian
Library), says of this worthy knight,
"When coffee first came in he was a great upholder of it, and hath
ever since been a constant frequenter of coffee-houses, especially
Mr. Farres at the Rainbowe, by Inner Temple Gate, and lately John's
Coffee-house, in Fuller's Rents. The first coffee-house in London
was in St. Michael's Alley, in Cornhill, opposite to the church,
which was set up by one ---- Bowman (coachman to Mr. Hodges, a
Turkey merchant, who putt him upon it) in or about the yeare 1652.
'Twas about 4 yeares before any other was sett up, and that was by
Mr. Farr. Jonathan Paynter, over against to St. Michael's Church,
was the first apprentice to the trade, viz. to Bowman.--Mem. The
Bagneo, in Newgate Street, was built and first opened in Decemb.
1679: built by ... Turkish merchants."
Of this James Farr, Edward Hatton, in his _New View of London_, 1708,
(vol. i. p. 30) says:--
"I find it recorded that one James Farr, a barber, who kept the
coffee-house which is now the Rainbow, by the Inner Temple Gate,
(one of the first in England), was in the year 1657, prosecuted by
the inquest of St. Dunstan's in the West, for making and selling a
sort of liquor called coffee, as a great nuisance and prejudice to
the neighbourhood, &c., and who would then have thought London
would ever have had near three thousand such nuisances, and that
coffee would have been, as now, so much drank by the best of
quality and physicians." {315}
Howel, in noticing Sir Henry Blount's _Organon Salutis_, 1659, observes
that--
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